netBoot/i Scalability Demonstrated We are often asked about the scalability of our iSCSI boot solutions. To respond to these questions we’ve provided a general Capacity Planning Guidelines White Paper. One of our Premier Partners recently put these guidelines to the test in a live customer demonstration project – with impressive results. This diagram on our website presents an overview of the demonstration configuration consisting of: • 200+ Windows XP workstations • All workstations booting from a single shared iSCSI boot image • A single netBoot/i Server supporting all 200+ clients • A 10/100 mbps client network infrastructure In this case the customer was doing something that few others have attempted, so they insisted on a live demonstration to verify the scalability of netBoot/i in a shared boot environment. The demonstration was a great success and the customer is planning a deployment of over 1500 workstations in the coming year using an expanded version of this architecture. Another diagram further illustrating a similar generic shared boot-image configuration for Windows XP is available here. Please contact us if you’d like to learn more about the possibilities of shared iSCSI boot images and write-persistence.

Imagine this in a combination with VDI, just 1 image to maintain just like Citrix Provisioning Server.